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8 Things to know about the Dancing Sun A 204ct Fancy Yellow Diamond

The Dancing Sun is the largest polished diamond mined in North America

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  1. The ever spectacular Dancing Sun, a fancy intense yellow diamond is a whopping 204.36 carats
  2. It was cut from a 552.74-carat rough unearthed at the Diavik mine in Canada
  3. It is a cushion modified brilliant-cut diamond, VVS2-clarity stone
  4. Christie’s will feature six diamonds ranging from 14.52 to 1.06 carats and the ever spectacular Dancing Sun, a fancy intense yellow diamond
  5. This rough also produced a pair of pear-shaped diamonds of 37.87 and 36.80 carats, which went under the hammer at Christie’s New York in December 2018 for $1.5 million.


6. The 552.74 carat yellow rough diamond most impressively trumps the previous record for the largest gem quality rough ever discovered in North America
7.With its enormous weight of 204.36 carats, the Dancing Sun is also the largest polished diamond mined in North America to date
8. This fancy-intense-yellow diamond with a high estimate of $5.5 million will lead the New York sale at Christie’s in June

 

 

 


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